Topic: George Shea

Kobayashi's hot dog eating 'world record' disputed

NY Daily News - 218 days ago
Wait one (hot) doggone minute!. . Champion nosher Takeru Kobayashi claims he set a world record on Independence Day by inhaling 69 hot dogs in 10...

competitions reward top eaters with money

San Francisco Chronicle - 222 days ago
0 . Jim Reeves was spitting blood. It was summer 2009, and the high school math teacher and competit...

Women to win four times less prize money than men in Nathan's famous hot dog-eating contest

NY Daily News - 291 days ago
Here's something not to relish.. The winner of this year's first-ever all-women's finals in Nathan's Famous hot dog-eating contest will make four...

Corporations Finding New "Sports" to Sponsor

Minyanville - 459 days ago
The National Football League's corporate sponsors include household names like Pepsi (PEP), Visa (V), and Coors Light (TAP).. Major League Baseball...

Japan's speed-eating king arrested at NYC contest

Reuters Life! Online Report - 585 days ago
NEW YORK (Reuters Life!) - Japanese competitive-eating champion Takeru Kobayashi was arrested on Sunday after trying to upstage an annual hotdog-eating contest in New York.The rake-thin 32-year-old, who was not a competitor in this year's event, scuffled with police moments after ...

Quotations of the day

AP Features - 1543 days ago
"You wouldn't want to swat one of those." — British paleontologist Simon Braddy on a fossilized claw, part of an ancient sea scorpion, that is of such large proportion it would make the entire creature the biggest bug ever at 8 feet ...

Some say eating contests in bad taste

AP News - 1543 days ago
Gastronomic Greatness or Sheer Gluttony? Some Find Competitive Eating Hard to SwallowPlanning to gorge yourself this Thanksgiving? Don't flatter yourself, amateur.As Americans stuff themselves with turkey on Thursday, professional eaters will take center stage in a nationally televised competition, gobbling ...